Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:42:16 +1000, bambam wrote: > >> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bambam wrote: >>> >>>> Thank you, >>> >>> Don't top-post. >> >> I have a number of news readers here, but all of them work >> better with top-posting, and in none of them is top posting >> a problem. > > This is not about *you* having any problems but all the people who must > read your top postings. Most of them, at least in this news group, expect > that a text read from top to bottom follows time from earliest to latest. > And as most here don't top post, a conversation with a top poster starts > to get mixed and even harder to follow.
>From <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
